{"id":355181,"date":"2018-04-04T08:47:57","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T07:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-admits-use-of-unauthorized-spying-tools-in-dc\/"},"modified":"2018-04-04T08:47:57","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T07:47:57","slug":"presstv-us-admits-use-of-unauthorized-spying-tools-in-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-admits-use-of-unauthorized-spying-tools-in-dc\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US admits use of unauthorized spying tools in DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has acknowledged for the first time that unauthorized spying devices are being used in Washington, DC.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to a letter obtained by <em>The Hill<\/em>, the department admitted that foreign actors or criminals are using eavesdropping devices to track cellphone activity in Washington.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The letter DHS wrote to Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) last Monday shows that they came across unauthorized cell-site simulators in the area last year.<\/p>\n<p>The devices known as &#8220;stingrays&#8221; can track a user&#8217;s location data using their mobile phones and can intercept cellphone calls and messages.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[T]he National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD) has observed anomalous activity in the National Capital Region that appears to be consistent with International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) catchers,&#8221; DHS wrote responding to specific questions Wyden sent them last November.<\/p>\n<p>It said that it has knowledge of IMSI use outside the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/04\/04\/557381\/US-Washington-spying-devices\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has acknowledged for the first time that unauthorized spying devices are being used in Washington, DC. According to a letter obtained by The Hill, the department admitted that foreign actors or criminals are using eavesdropping devices to track cellphone activity in Washington.\u00a0 The letter DHS wrote to Sen. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-355181","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}